Timeline for Why are clumsily formulated questions downvoted & closed so much?
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| Sep 19, 2021 at 6:45 | comment | added | Vsotvep | @john Thanks for the insightful comment! I'm glad you nailed down the point I was trying to get across. | |
| Sep 18, 2021 at 17:12 | comment | added | john | Looks like you answered your own question in the title 'clumsily formulated questions'. | |
| Sep 17, 2021 at 17:17 | answer | added | EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 17, 2021 at 14:47 | comment | added | Marina | I had an issue like this in Theoretical Computer Science community. There was not a single comment under my question, but there were two downvotes. After I expressed my disappointment, I received several very angry answers, including one who said that the question was bad, because I used article "the" where he would expect "a". In the end, in rather rude form, I did get the answer I could use. These silent downvotes exist to mark "outliers": people asking questions not from a textbook. This is how I see it. | |
| Sep 16, 2021 at 13:22 | answer | added | vonbrand | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 7, 2021 at 15:43 | comment | added | amWhy | @stevengregory One can vote to close a question that's open, one can vote to open a question that's closed. Perfect symmetry in what one can do. Why would you vote to open a post already open, or vote to close a post already closed? Again, perfect symmetry in that one cannot do either. :-) | |
| Sep 7, 2021 at 14:50 | comment | added | Xander Henderson Mod | @stevengregory You may not be able to vote to keep a question open, but once a question is closed, you can vote to reopen that question. | |
| Sep 6, 2021 at 15:08 | comment | added | Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer | @stevengregory The SE folks put a different metric on it, see here and the last answer there. Then there's the thread here , which says you can leave a comment "Voting not to close" and honourably someone will "cancel" it if they wish to close by not voting to close but commenting to this effect. It mayn't work, at least one person told me they were ignored. | |
| Sep 6, 2021 at 13:58 | comment | added | Steven Alexis Gregory | @GerryMyerson - No. Then we get into arguing who decides if a question is "perfectly good". It occurs to me that we can vote to close a question but we can't vote to keep a question open. That seems a bit mobius strip to me. | |
| Sep 6, 2021 at 11:41 | history | became hot meta post | |||
| Sep 6, 2021 at 4:27 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak |
added the tag (context) - since it is one of the topics here; if you think that the tag does not fit, feel free to remove it
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| Sep 6, 2021 at 4:04 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | ... an answer saying that if natural numbers are introduced as von Neumann ordinals, then $\emptyset=0$ and the above expression could then by interpreted as $f(0)+3$. | |
| Sep 6, 2021 at 4:04 | comment | added | Martin Sleziak | You mention questions of the type: "I encounter this strange thing." In that case I would imagine the context to be where that strange thing was shown. (Hypothetically, the OP might have seen that in some assignment for a class. They add the assignment - a link to the file or an image. Answerers see what is the topic they are learning and maybe after seeing the problems, they immediately see that it is definitely just a typo. Knowing that, in this situation, $f(\emptyset)+3$ is a typo is definitely more useful to that user who is learning some basic stuff is probably more useful than... | |
| Sep 6, 2021 at 3:33 | comment | added | Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer | The way , for example that closure of a question itself is judged is via a popularly voted meta post (i.e. questions that lack the features presented in that post match up very well with questions that SE recommends to close), so meta posts are a way to provide global feedback to reviewers on their behaviour. I like this post very much even though it may have been asked before, because it questions the review system. We must help reviewers improve as well, if we are helping askers improve. | |
| Sep 6, 2021 at 3:22 | comment | added | Sarvesh Ravichandran Iyer | Please flag instances of (what, in your opinion ,is) poor reviewing in the future. I am a regular reviewer, and I've seen on multiple occasions that people lament the fact that question askers get feedback while reviewers don't. I barely receive feedback for what I do, but am very sensitive to it. I can't account for undeserved downvotes, but these can at least be cancelled instantly by an up vote, although the behaviour may be more difficult to spot and correct. The "EoQS" for close-voters is IMO in the hands of mods. I cannot see them rejecting the suggestion if there are enough flags. | |
| Sep 6, 2021 at 1:08 | vote | accept | Vsotvep | ||
| Sep 6, 2021 at 0:52 | answer | added | Xander HendersonMod | timeline score: 38 | |
| Sep 5, 2021 at 23:39 | comment | added | JonathanZ | This does not answer the entirety of your question, but the set of available closure reasons is limited and very poorly suited to this site. Thus the word "context" is over-used and abused as people try to work through the review queues. | |
| Sep 5, 2021 at 23:04 | comment | added | Vsotvep | That would simultaneously solve the weird thing where people get to vote about closure of a question in a field of study that they have no experience in whatsoever. | |
| Sep 5, 2021 at 23:02 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | We need an EoQS for downvoters & close voters. If you downvote or vote to close a perfectly good question, you should get a message from the Moderating Team threatening suspension. | |
| Sep 5, 2021 at 22:37 | history | asked | Vsotvep | CC BY-SA 4.0 |